Have you ever tried teaching someone how to solve a cube?

[Meisen]

I've succesfully taught 2 people how to solve the cube. My girlfriend, and a buddy.

I've also shown a couple of other friends some basic things, but because of time/interest issues on their part, i havent taught them all they need to know to solve the entire cube.

 

[Disentie]

I have taught 6 people how to solve a 3x3. They have all successfully solved it.

 

[koreancuber]

I've taught 4 people and I'm currently teaching 1. Most people who ask give up after the 'cross' (Fridrich first step).

 

[somerandomkidmike]

I taught my brother how to solve the rubik's cube. He can do it in a little over a minute. He won't learn Corners First though.

 

[marthaurion]

I've taught a good 5 or so people how to do it, crash course with the dedmore layer by layer method. People who have more logistic based minds get it very easily, but others who arent so good at sciences and logic tend to be a lot harder and longer to learn, on top of not having the willpower as much

That makes sense...The people at my college are almost all lit-base minded. The people that I hung out with in high school were science/math minded. And my little sister, being my sister and all, is definitely math minded.

 

[onionhoney]

i have taught 5 people or so.
i taught 2 of them using Roux(which doesn't need too much algs) and introduced LBL to the rest.

The fastest one of them, which is my classmate, averages about 50 or so using LBL.
and both of my parents can sub2 with Roux.

 

[blakedacuber]

i tought 2 people, one got bored after 5 minutes nd the other averages around a minute the moment

 

[blakedacuber]

oh and i thought my 4 yr old brother to do it because he was very math minded like me he can now slve in about a minute and a half

 

[riffz]

I taught my girlfriend when she came with me to a competition last year. I taught her the badmephisto method but replaced his U perms with faster ones. She wanted to get a bit faster without memorizing more algorithms so I taught her keyhole and she averages about 50 seconds.

 

[xXzaKerXx]

I tried teaching them LBL and after the 1st layer, it's always the same:
'now, turn the cube over, and...this you'll have to google the algs, sorry.'

 

[Yes We Can!]

I have taught a friend intuitive F2L and another friend full LBL method.
Both succeeded
Sadly they don't cube anymore... I think the one, which I taught the F2L had a record of ~23 seconds.

 

[Haste_cube]

I don't teach a friend who is not serious in cubing
like when they succeeded in solving the cube, they just stop cubing
I have taught many of my friends not only LBL, but also other method that suits them like Petrus, or waterman, fridrich etc

 

[nate333667]

Some people just don't get it...they do random things thinking that it will eventually magically solve itself. Teaching someone is one of the most frustrating things ever

 

[cooldayr]

I was taught

my times are very weird though
2x2 - 57 sec avg
3x3 1:09 avg
4x4 3:42 avg
5x5 4:10 avg
6x6 9:18 avg
7x7 10:59 avg
9x9 32:48 avg (only done like 15 solves)
gigaminx 31:45 avg
teraminx 1:07:xx one solve timed lol

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

Taught my friend Tylr5122 LBL on 3x3. I just showed him where to execute the algs. and what each one did.

 

[retr0]

I've taught 4 of my friend the entire cube, and 3 people the first 2 layers. After those they thought "F**k that". :lol:
Everyone I've taught have sub-60 solves.

First person I taught: Intuitive F2L, 2LOLL, currently learning full PLL.
2nd person I taught: Intuitive F2L, SuneOLL, 2LPLL.
3rd person I taught: Beginners F2L, SuneOLL, 2LPLL
4th person I taught: Keyhole f2l and beginners LL.

3 of them can also solve a 4x4/5x5 etc too

 

[cincyaviation]

I was taught

my times are very weird though
2x2 - 57 sec avg
3x3 1:09 avg
4x4 3:42 avg
5x5 4:10 avg
6x6 9:18 avg
7x7 10:59 avg
9x9 32:48 avg (only done like 15 solves)
gigaminx 31:45 avg
teraminx 1:07:xx one solve timed lol

practice 2x2, now

 

[fundash]

I taught my dad to solve it in 1:30
and I'm teaching a few friends at the moment (one is CaptinEv98)

 

[Sherwood]

Taught my 4 1/2 year old sister. My 10 year old sister. My friend at school. My cousin and fam friend. So 5 people?

 

[BowDown2Gir]

I just wrote down all the algorithms and used the template that Thrawst supplied in his Tip of the week #10 vid and just drew in the pattern. I took time to go over the cross and F2L with him (yes, I was trying to teach him Fredich the first time) and I just let him experiment from there. It took about 3 days, and his first official time was 1:47:06